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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept






2. Supported only by "qualitative research" instead of quantitative research - Teaches "whole words" in word families - Students are not explicitly taught that there is a relationship between letters and sounds for most sounds






3. The flat diacritical mark above a vowel in a send picture or phonic/dictionary notation that indicates a long sound.






4. Individual Educational Plan






5. An affix attached to the beginning of a word that changes the meaning of that word.






6. Participate in classroom discussions - make speeches/presentations - use tape records during lectures - read text out loud - create musical jingles - create mnemonics to aid memorization - discuss ideas verbally






7. Teutonic invasion and settlement - The Christianizing of Britain - The creation of a national English culture - Danish-English warfare - Political adjustment and cultural assimilation and the decline of Old English as a result of The Norman Conquest.






8. Wide Range Achievement Test






9. A word made from a base word by the addition of one or more affixes






10. A quick probe that is done frequently in order to make instructional changes in a timely fashion.






11. Was a major change in the pronunciation of the English language that took place in England between 1350 and 1500.[1] This was first studied by Otto Jespersen (1860-1943) - a Danish linguist and Anglicist - who coined the term. Because English spellin






12. Vocabulary stressed the events of daily life - Common - everyday - down to earth words - Most are one syllable words






13. Test of Word Reading Efficiency. Screening test. measures an individual's ability to pronounce printed words accurately and fluently. Generates percentiles - standard scores - age equivalents - and grade equivalents.Decoding - Sight words






14. A significant unit of visual shape. We use the visual shape as to cover not only writing - but also any other shape perceived by the eye which is a visible representation of a unit of speech. A single graphic letter or letter cluster which represents






15. A districts dyslexia program is considered part of the basic - required curriculum. Therefore - state compensatory education funds can only be used to provide programs - projects - activities - and materials that supplement that district's regular dy






16. Response to Intervention - a multi-step or tiered approach to providing services and interventions at increasing intensity to students or an entire class.






17. Ability to understand and express spoken language






18. Gray Oral Reading Test-Fourth Edition Screening test. Provides an efficient and objective measure of growth in oral reading and an aid in the diagnosis of oral reading difficulties Standard Scores - Percentile Ranks - Grade Equivalents - Age Equivale






19. State Board of Eduation






20. Open syllable






21. Closed syllable






22. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.






23. Screening test. Elementary age only. Asks test taker to name the letters of the alphabet






24. The percentile score on - for example - a test is the score that represents the percent of other scores to or lower than is. If a student performs in the 85% of his or her class - it means the 85% of the other scores of students who also took the tes






25. A diacritical marking. A wavy line placed over any vowel before r in a combination to indicate the unaccented pronunciation eg letter. The tildes used both in coding words and in a sound picture. When the pronunciation of any unaccented vowel-r combi






26. A class of open speech sounds produced by the easy passage of air through a relatively open vocal tract. A - E - I - O - U






27. International Multisensory Structured Education Council






28. Scientific terminology and often appear in science texts - Greek roots are often combining forms and compound to form words.






29. Proceeds from the part to the whole.Reading is driven by the text. Emphasizes the written or printed text. Flesch - Gough - LaBerge and Samuels.






30. Developmental Auditory Impercepion - Dysphasia - Specific Developmental Dyslexia - Developmental Dysgraphia - Developmental Spelling Disability






31. Closed syllable - open syllable - vowel- consonant-e - r controlled syllable - vowel team - final stable syllable






32. Explicitly teaches strategies and techniques for studying texts and acquiring meaning






33. Stress or emphasis on one syllable in a word or on one or more words in a phrase or sentence. The accented part is spoken louder - longer - and/or in a higher tone. The speaker's mouth opens wider while saying an accented syllable.






34. Use - pictures - charts - maps - graphs - etc...clear view of teacher - color to highlight important text - ask teacher to provide handouts - illustrate ideas as pictures before writing them down - use multi media






35. Vowel - consonant - e syllable






36. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek






37. Study of sounds and how the work within their environment






38. A type of derived score such that the distribution of these scores for a specified population has convenient known values for the mean and standard deviation.






39. Two vowels standing adjacent in the same syllable whose sounds blend smoothly together in one syllable. There are only four diphthongs in English. These are ou/out - ow/cow - oi/oil - oy - boy






40. The number of words a student can read correctly in a given period of time.






41. A letter or a group of letters attached to the beginning or ending of a base word or root that creates a derivative with a meaning or grammatical form that is different that the base word or root.






42. The process of systematically gathering test scores and related data in order to make judgement about an individuals ability to perform various mental activities involved in the processing - acquisition - retention - conceptualization - and organizat






43. A term coined by Stanovich to describe a phenomenon observed in findings of cumulative advantage for children who read well and have good vocabulary and cumulative disadvantage for those who have inadequate vocabularies and read less and thus have lo






44. Students proceed trough predictable stages of learning to reading.

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45. A type of test score that is calculated based on the age that an average person earns a given score within the tested population.






46. Whole language - Drop Everythng and read - evaluation through miscues - founds of whole language






47. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents






48. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.






49. A score that describes student performance in terms of the statistical performance of an average student at a given grade level. Ranges from K.0 to 12.9 Are not a dependable representation of progress






50. The ability to organize thoughts and express them verbally to convey meaning to others